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2018

(July) The lab says farewell to Britney and welcomes Hunter Johnson!

(May) Prof. Lin joins the Editorial Board of journal Gels.

(April) ​Congratulations to Matt on receiving a 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship to support his PhD research and education! Matt has also been offered a T32 Fellowship in the Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Training in Diabetes Research program in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University.

(April) Gino will present a poster at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018 in Chicago.

(April) The lab will deliver 6 oral presentations (5 regular talks and 1 rapid fire talk) and 1 poster in the 2018 Annual Meeting of Society for Biomaterials in Atlanta.

(November) ​John successfully defended his MS thesis and has another manuscript accepted for publication in RSC Advances. Congrats!

(November) Tanja's MS thesis has been awarded the Distinguished Master's Thesis Award by the IUPUI Graduate School! The Graduate School has also nominated her work for the 2017 Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished Master's Thesis Award! Congratulations, Tanja!

(March) Hannie has been selected by Purdue University College of Engineering to receive the 2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award! Congrats!

(February) John receives a Graduate-Professional Educational Grant for supporting his travel to the 2016 ACS National Meeting in San Diego. Congrats!

(January) The lab welcomes a new PhD student, Hung-Yi Liu.

(January) Hannie has been selected to receive a Joe Bourland Travel Award and an A. H. Ismail Interdisciplinary Program Doctoral Research Travel Award from Purdue University to attend and present her research in the 2016 American Chemical Society Spring Meeting. Congrats!

2015

(December) The lab receives a Pilot Funding for Research Use of Core Facilities from Indiana Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute.

(November) Tanja successfully defended her MS thesis. Congrats!

(November) Tsai-Yu and John’s co-author paper has been accepted to Macromolecular Bioscience. Congrats!

(October) John’s first paper on PEG-silk hybrid hydrogel has been accepted to Journal of Applied Polymer Science. Congrats!

(October) Dr. Tsai-Yu Lin has been promoted to Research Assistant Professor! Congrats!

(August) Hannie successfully passed the final stage of qualifying exam and is now a PhD candidate! Congrats!

(June) The lab receives a Research Support Funds Grant (RSFG) from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to study the Hippo pathway in hepatocellular carcinoma cells in engineered 3D matrix.

(June) The lab says farewell to Krista and welcomes three new graduate students - Brent Hukill, John Bragg, and Camron Dawes.

(June) Prof. Lin was invited to participate the 2015 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, an annual symposium held by the National Academy of Engineering. About 100 outstanding engineers under the age of 45 are invited to discuss cutting-edge developments in selected engineering topics.

(August) Former postdoc Chang Seok’s paper on thiol-ene hydrogels for modeling pancreatic cancer cell behaviors in 3D has been accepted to Biomaterials. Congrats!

(August) Former postdoc Chang Seok accepts an Assistant Professor position in Department of Biosystems and Biomaterials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University in Korea. Congrats to Professor Ki!

(July) The Lab receives another NIH R21 grant: Adaptable hydrogel platform to study pancreatic cancer. This is a collaborative project between the Lin Research Group and Dr. Murray Korc at IU School of Medicine.

(July) Our orthogonally cross-linked gelatin hydrogel paper was featured in the front cover of the August issue of Biomaterials Science!

(May) Tsai-Yu’s paper on manipulating hepatocyte cell fate in 3D has been accepted to Biomaterials. Congrats!

(April) Elaine successfully defended her MS thesis. Congrats!

(April) The lab receives another research funding support from 100 Voices of Hope for Breast Cancer Research to develop drug analogs for treatment of bone metastasis. The lead PIs of this project are Dr. Hari Nakshatri (IUSM) and Dr. Hiroki Yokota (IUPUI BME).

(April) The lab receives a FORCES (Funding Opportunities for Research Commercialization and Economic Success) grant from IUPUI OVCR to develop advanced hydrogel systems for simultaneous delivery of hydrophobic and hydrophilic drugs.

(March) The lab receives an Indiana University Collaborative Research Grant (IUCRG) to develop 3D biomimetic hydrogels for functional liver tissue engineering. This work is a new research collaboration with Prof. Guoli Dai’s group in the Department of Biology at IUPUI Purdue School of Science.

(June) MD/PhD student Jenny Lin will join the lab for her IU/Purdue MSTP program summer rotation.

(June) Chien-Chi and Dr. Hiroki Yokota has been awarded a FORCE grant (Funding Opportunities for Research Commercialization and Economic Success) from IUPUI OVCR to develop Salubrinal-releasing orthopedic implants.

(May) Undergraduate researcher Arika Kemp will join the lab to work on a project supported by Purdue School of Engineering and Technology (Commitment to Engineering Excellence Research Fund).

(May) Undergraduate researcher Andrew Fraser, the 2012 IUPUI Top Male Student Awardee, will join the lab to work on a project supported by a UROP grant.

(May) Two years in a row the Lin Research Group welcomes IUPUI Top Male Students (Andrew Fraser in 2012 and Asad Raza in 2011)!